Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Apple’s iPad 2 announcement – New iPad gets A5, cameras, and an improved design

Happy iPad 2 day! The Apple event is going to kick off in a few minutes (1PM Eastern time, 10am local) and we’ll be updating this page as soon as we hear what’s announced. We’ll be following live blogs to get the news (the event isn’t being streamed live), so be sure to check out PCMag, Engadget, MobileCrunch, Ars Technica, and MacWorld if you want the full firehose. We’ll try to compress the full 60+ minute event into something a bit more digestible.

We’ve already guessed about what the new iPad will be like, plus some very interesting photos leaked out this morning if you want to possibly get a sneak peek at the device. In case you are curious, the most prominent rumors are pointing towards the second iPad getting front/rear cameras, a thinner body, and possibly a larger speaker. It’ll also probably get better performance, with a new (possibly dual-core) processor and more RAM. There are a lot of other rumors though, so we’ll have to see what, if any, pan out. And let’s not forget that a new ipad isn’t the only possibility today. Hopefully we’ll learn about updates to iOS, possibly iOS 5.

And the event has started! Steve Jobs is on stage.

The first topic today will be iBooks- over 100M books were sold since the app was released and now Random House is on board so expect to see that number grow in the future.

And now for the numbers: Apple has shipped 100M iPhones, paid $2B out to developers, and has 200M iTunes accounts. Things are good in the land of Apple.

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